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One aspect of the new ’59 Divine is the ‘Vintage 50s’ pickups. “The pickups are a great replica of the best 50s pickups,” Steve Ridinger of Dano owners the Evets Corporation told us at the guitars’ launch at NAMM earlier this year. “We looked at a lot of old pickups and analysed them,” he said. “All this time we thought the magnet was Alnico 5 but we found they were using Alnico 6 – and it was a sand-cast magnet,

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